Comment 0 for bug 192486

Binary package hint: mythtv

This FFe is not directly for a single upload, but rather for the "plan" throughout the rest of the Hardy cycle. MythTV will be releasing their 0.21 release within the next 1-1.5 months. With recent discussions with them, they have entered feature freeze and branched off trunk to it's own 0.21 branch to complete bug fixing.

You can see their road map posted here: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/roadmap. At the time of posting, there are 51 pending open bugs for 0.21 (which was closer to 120 just two weeks ago). In preparation on our end, we switched to trunk checkouts over the last month and have been bringing all bugs we could upstream to be fixed.

Barring any unforseen consequences, upstream would like to see 0.21 in Hardy, and is going to try to meet that schedule.

On our end, all of the packages that are listed in this bug need to be upgraded for the 0.21 release. They all have get-orig-source rules for building off a new checkout, so this isn't a very difficult or time consuming process.

Throughout the rest of the Hardy development cycle, the plan is to regularly (weekly or so) update these builds to the latest snapshot so that users are able to file bugs against fresh snapshots. If upstream hasn't completed and released 0.21 by the end of March, we will have a discussion with them to see where they are at on it. Beyond the end of March, no more snapshot uploads will be uploaded. If they complete 0.21 in time for when universe closes, that will be the uploaded as the last upload. If not, then the last upload will be the end of March snapshot, and then updated via hardy-updates after Hardy is released.